🌻🌻🌻 Are you ready to Loosen Up ?🌻🌻🌻

Hi Everyone Welcome to this weeks Wild at Art news. Have you ever heard yourself say these words?  “I can’t even draw a straight line, I wish I could do art, but I was no good at school!” Sound even slightly familiar? Isn’t it hard to get back to hands on stuff, when we are beguiled by these myriad devices, such as the one I am writing to you on right now! My loved laptop! But there is a yearning, I hear it all the time, a longing…and this may also seem familiar. People desire to reconnect with hands on artmaking, in all sorts of ways and we are slowly getting past the notion that only certain “gifted”  people can make art ! Of course there are many reasons to create and we are often motivated by different drives, we may desire to represent an object in a sketch, or we may need to draw a diagram to better understand something, other times we just want to doodle and drop into the quiet place of our flow state.

Often just starting with the sheer joy of playing with materials, just like our younger selves did, can lead us right where we need to be ….and can be a direct hotline to the imaginal realm and that’s where the GOLD is! Interacting with various art media stimulates the primal areas of our brain. We can engage in a purely sensory experience, the process can be rhythmic, tactile, and sensual. Sometimes functioning at this level can allow us access to memories or to exploring our emotions.  So I have chosen to bring the Loosen Up process which provides this  approach, to our weekday artists, since people kept returning on Saturdays to do it again and again! So what do we do? We get to use all of our senses as artmaking prompts…..we listen, we touch and we close our eyes!  We explore line, colour, texture and layering techniques to see what our intuitive self responds to and is drawn to. We seek out some of your own personal motifs and symbols, and mostly we experience play….experiment and letting go. This is pure sensory pleasure and a wonderful way to learn more about YOU !

Loosen Up Painting  Mornings Wednesday 31st July-  Aug-21st 9.30-12.00am Be bold! Be Brave! $1,500 for 4 x classes incuding all materials Come and find your own inner artistic voice by exploring line, colour, texture and layering techniques to create intuitive paintings which will change and evolve over time ! You will be encouraged to be bold and fearless, to experiment with colours, to explore your mark making vocabulary, to find out how take creative risks and decisions, while allowing a process to unfold. Yes, come and trust the process, let whatever it is GO!! and follow your intuition.

!!!!!  Resuming this Wednesday !!!!!  at the Wild at Art Studio Lunchtime Destress Doodling  12.30-2.00pm Wednesdays $150 per session Do you sometimes feel it’s all just too much? WhatsApp me for the door code and come on in!

Our very next Art Journaling course starts in one month : Find your Voice Introduction to Visual Art Journaling 6.00-8.30pm Wednesdays NEW GROUP 4th September- 16th October ( 6 x weeks) Register with me on wildatartweekly@gmail.com

Vision-Quest: A Conscious Journey Articulating the self through creativity brought to you by the wise and insightful Katie Larson 6.30 - 9.00pm Tuesdays 3rd  -24th September ( 4 x weeks) $1,500 for 4 classes inc all materials Follow your inner artist on a Vision-Quest deep inside yourself. Explore your unconscious and discover the colors, patterns, and symbols buried within. Play with mixed media--paint, pencils, pastels, and collage--and bring visual form to your non-verbal knowings. Create a dictionary to bridge the gap between your verbal-world and symbolic world. Design a card deck showing the wide spectrum of your persona, and create beautiful 3D models of "The Big Picture" (the universe as you know it) and "The Small Picture" (your whole self as you know it).

I look forwards to greeting you very soon at the Wild at Art Door! Artfully Yours from Katie